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Desperate CharactersPaula Fox
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Desperate Characters

171 pagesFirst published 197011 editions · 3 languages
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First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature--a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd" and "The Great Gatsby".

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionNorton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.20151929780393351101
EditionHarperCollins Publishers Limited2013—9780007397457
Paperback · spaEl Aleph20061769788476697207
EditionFlamingo20031769780007150380
Paperback · gerDtv20022009783423129718
Audiobook · gerHoffmann & Campe2001—9783455302714
Hardcover · gerC.H.Beck2000—9783406460609
EditionW.W. Norton19991569780393318944
EditionNorton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.19991929780393342123
EditionNonpareil Books19801669780879233099
EditionMacmillan19701569780333120729
FictionMarried womenCity and town lifeFiction, generalNew york (n.y.), fictionPsychological fictionDomestic fictionLiterature